Fantastic Voyages From the Earth to the Moon
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Book
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Category
Science Fiction/Fantaisie
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Publication Year
1867
Pages
139
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Abstract
Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too. Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Even the return to earth happened in more-or-less the same place. Coincidence -- or fact!? We say you'll have to read this story yourself to judge.
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Public domain demonstration printing of the classic novel
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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CRL Sciences de la Vie | 94977 | LIV ANG SFF | 1 | Yes |